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Immigration Bailout
Melissa Leal
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April 06, 2015
Charlotte Babb

Immigration Bailout
Immigration reform, are you informed to what is going on? I’m going to explain how neither parties are taking into consideration how this will affect our nation, how the current immigration reform is putting a strain on our country, how all this is just a political struggle to gain the most influence, and options on how to solve the issues at hand.
Let me start by explaining how this personally affects me. My husband is a border patrol agent. The information that I have gathered is strictly information that I have heard from either the media or things spoken indirectly. By no means did I get my information from my husband. The reason this affects many families of homeland security is, the constant back and forth between both parties trying to come to some agreement about a budget, this has been a long-standing issue. The government shutdown happened last year; this affected many federal employees. The difference being is that homeland security workers were still required to go out and do their job without pay. They had to put their lives on the line just as American soldiers did. What I think is the people do not realize that both parties fail to solve the issue and they just put a Band-Aid on it. Then the public is informed that there has been some type of resolution. In hindsight, I was one of those people. I failed to realize the truth until it actually directly affected me. A good example on how I feel are Obama, and his administration do not take into consideration the affect this will have on our nation. The reason being is, that the new bill he is trying to pass, is delaying the processing of new family units and children in an effort to change immigration laws to grant amnesty. This immigration issue is creating an influx or an overwhelming amount of paperwork for the number of minors coming into the United States. This crisis is also causing a major strain in the border communities because so much law informant presence in the area that people cannot go on with their normal day-to-day life. Which in turn is increasing the various criminal acts around the border communities trying to flee law enforcement. Including the amount of drugs coming into this country is encouraging more of the cartels to crossover to escort the drugs and to create a stronger base of operation in the United States. Most jails and holding facilities are full beyond capacity, most likely encouraging early release of other inmates into our society. Not to mention, the burden that is affecting the rest of the country, is that illegal children are being sent across the nation to be taken care of from anywhere between five to ten years. A good solution for this is to grant amnesty for kids that are bring brought here illegally and grew up here, but not new arrivals. The republicans are against the bill that Obama is trying to pass because they want to limit the amount of money being spent. Which sounds good, but they are not coming up with any ideas to deal with the immigration issue. In my opinion, the Republican Party is fully aware how all this is affecting our nation, but is doing nothing to get a handle on the situation because they want the Democratic Party to look incompetent. According to an article I read the author wrote it best stating, "The legislators went back and forth for months, like little kids arguing who “dunnit” (“did not,” “did too”),” (Orchowski, page 01, 2014).
How the current immigration issue is putting our country in constant pressure is the overwhelming amount of illegals coming in is permitting the opportunity for special interest illegals to get into the country. For instance, on several occasion over the last several years along the border along popular crossing areas from Texas to California, dropped documentation found being directly linked to Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. As well as the increased amount of narcotics, entering the US market is facilitating continued drug use throughout the country. This causes an increase in taxpayer dollars to fight this so-called war on drugs that we are losing either way and effecting an already dying economy. Different cities throughout the country are being forced to support the overwhelming amount of illegals, by housing and or caring for these illegals, for an unknown amount of time. Not to mention the use of public programs such as welfare, food stamps, and section 8 in which their case get expedited due to their situation while citizens of this country have had to wait for an extended period of time. Look, I am not against helping those in need, but I do think we should help those in our house before we go off cleaning other houses.
The most important reasons how neither sides are taking into consideration how this will affect our nation is because this is just a political struggle between the democrats and the republicans on who can gain the most political influence. A good example is how both parties have suggested at least a somewhat reasonable bill to help with the immigration crisis, but neither is willing to accept the other party’s suggestions. Reason being is that regardless of which bill is passed the “one” party wants to be looked at as heroes that have solved the immigration issue. Another example is the Obama administration/ the Democratic Party want to gain a political stronghold with the Hispanics by changing the current immigration policies in the United States, therefore catering to the Hispanic community. “Democrats get a lot of political mileage when immigration reform is threatened. They go to claim Republicans were anti-immigrants and even anti-Latino,” (Orchowski, page 02, 2014). This is leading up to who can gain the most votes in the presidential election in 2016. Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are preparing for this even if that means putting a burden on this country. “It gets emotional. Democrats and immigrant advocates blame “fearful anti-immigrant” Republicans. Republicans point to President Obama’s ‘Pen and Phone’ strategy: they don’t trust him to enforce immigration or any other laws with which he doesn’t agree and to use his power of executive orders to circumvent laws,” (Orchowski, page 01, 2014). The republicans on the other hand are just sticking to the current laws expecting that the immigration reform that the Obama administration is trying to pass is just going to blow up in their face like Obamacare.
I personally do not agree with how either party’s’ are handling the current immigration issues. I think there is a good way to solve this issue. For instance, instead of continuing to build up the border patrol and building more million-dollar fences that don’t get finished, maybe it would be better to hire more people to process the influx of immigrants and to process visas. Not only will it be one-step to getting closer to solving the immigration issue, but it will also help the unemployment rate of this country. Something else that can be done is to lower the wait time for visas, which is currently at a ten-year wait time and, lowering it to one-year wait time. With the border patrol agents hands are tied maybe, we can train and authorize the border patrol agents to process some illegal at least being able to issue temporary visas. Being that they get firsthand experience on the kind of individuals that are trying to get into this country. Now others will state differently. They think the solutions are a lot less complex than what we make them. For example, some will state to lower the restrictions that immigration enforcement officers have to allow them to enforce this country’s laws as opposed to working against them. Furthermore, others will state to just to put snipers on the borders and just kill whoever is trying to crossover illegally. The theory is after the first few die it would hopefully discourage others from trying to cross. Whichever the solution maybe we need to unite as a country and come to a decision on what needs to be done. “American voters have never been given the opportunity to render a judgment on these social changes. If they were, they might decide that, when all is said and done immigration is vital to American prosperity, culture, and well worth its price. Denied the opportunity to be heard, frustration could lead to alienation, disaffection, or worse. The problem with the manner in which policy is made today is not its incremental character but it is one-sidedness,” (Freeman, page 106, 2010). We need to demand more information from our government so that we can make well-informed decisions, not decisions that they want us to make.
In conclusion, whether or not reducing restrictions on immigration officers will help solve the issue is left to be seen. It is apparent that neither sides are taking into consideration how this will affect our nation. It is more than obvious that this immigration crisis is putting a strain on our nation. Most importantly, this is just a political struggle between both parties on who can gain the most influences for personal gain. Furthermore, either no one is doing anything to solve the immigration issue, or the comprehensive bill that is trying to be passed is questionable at best. I just know that immigration reform is necessary, but not in this manner.

References:
Orchowski, M. S. (2014, May 05). What's happened to comprehensive immigration reform? The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 24, 26-27. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1530126687?accountid=458
Freeman, G. P. (2010). Can comprehensive immigration reform be both liberal and democratic? Society, 47(2), 102-106. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-009-9297-3

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